Kuhler Funeral Home

Meet Our Staff

      George  Kuhler is a native of Wakonda, South Dakota and is a graduate of Dakota Wesleyan  University at Mitchell, and the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science.  He worked at the Milliken  Funeral Home in Mitchell and the Hanson-Anderson Mortuary in Grand Forks, North  Dakota  before moving to Huron in 1977. George served as president of the South Dakota Funeral Directors  Association in 1987-1988 and was appointed in 1989 to serve on the Clergy  Relations Committee of the National Funeral Directors Association by President  Richard Braun and was reappointed in 1990 by President Robert Shank.   In July of 1991, SD Governor George Mickelson appointed George to the South  Dakota State Board of Funeral Service for a five-year term.   In October 1994, George became a certified funeral service practitioner with the  Academy of Professional Funeral Service Practice.  He has served as Beadle  County Coroner since January 1993.  George was selected by the National  Institute of Justice to a committee with the purpose of formulating a nationally  uniform procedure for death investigation.  The result of that  collaboration was a manual published in 1997 entitled National Guidelines for  Death Investigation.

     Deborah Kuhler  is a native of Fargo, North Dakota and is a graduate of Dakota Wesleyan  University at Mitchell and the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks.  A licensed counselor, she was previously employed at Community Counseling Services in Huron,  and  was a member of the adjunct faculty at Huron University for many  years.  She is a former member of the South Dakota House of  Representatives and served on a state-wide committee in 1990 which  completely revised the state mental health laws.  She was appointed  by Governor Walter Dale Miller to serve on the SD Board of Counselor  Examiners and served as its president.  Deborah is certified in  Thanatology by the Association of Death Education and Counseling.

      In addition to the Kuhlers, the staff includes funeral service trainee Cheri  Bjorke, licensed funeral director Roy Milliken, and funeral service assistants  Gene Chapman, Donna Kowalke, Marjy Milliken, and Henry Tschetter.